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Design travels different.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

When coming back from Ireland, we quickly realized how well America is signed in comparison to the rest of the world. We have street signs, leader signs, wayfinding signs, mile markers, brand signage, etc. In Ireland they have a different tool: Intuition… oh, and the luck of the Irish. Remarkably enough we literally got around the whole entire country of Ireland without so much as a highway map. It was insane!

Fom Shannon to Galway to The Aran Islands, back to Galway to Sligo to Dublin to Limerick and back to Shannon as though we were experts. We just figured, if we were going in the general direction we would eventually get there! Anthony and I were both amazed that no matter how many lefts we made, we would somehow end up in the right place.


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